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EU AI Act readiness for autonomous agents
How the Agent Seal agent registry maps to obligations under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and where our partner aisthetix.de covers organisation-level assessment and data governance.
Use the registration guide to prepare a new agent record, then use the public verifier to check a live agent's signed Agent Card, registry status, EU evidence bundle, court export, append-only event history, and recorded PEDIGREE intent chain from one browser surface. For plain deployment patterns, see the pilot case studies.
Near-term timing: Article 50 transparency applies from 2 August 2026. The Commission's current AI Omnibus framing moves standalone Annex III high-risk systems toward 2 December 2027 and product-integrated high-risk systems toward 2 August 2028. The high-risk classification consultation closes 23 June 2026, 22:00 CET.
The partnership
The AI Act is not sector-based — it applies by role (provider vs deployer, Art. 3 / 25) and the risk tier of the specific use (Art. 5 / 6 / 50). Two layers, two partners:
aisthetix.de — organisation readiness
Role + risk-tier assessment, prohibited-use screen (Art. 5), high-risk deployer/provider readiness (Art. 6, 26/27), transparency (Art. 50), GPAI (Art. 53/55), and DSGVO/GoBD data governance (Art. 10) — as a scored, sovereign readiness self-assessment.
agent-seal.xyz — agent accountability
Per-agent technical controls and evidence: verifiable identity, a signed covenant, a human liability anchor, append-only traceability, a signed Agent Card, JWKS, and a court-grade export.
What agent-seal.xyz provides, by article
These are technical building blocks that contribute evidence toward each obligation — they do not discharge it on their own.
| Provision | Obligation | Supporting feature |
|---|---|---|
| Art. 12 | Record-keeping / automatic logging over the lifetime | Append-only Merkle-DAG trace log, hash-chained, OpenTimestamps-anchored, court-export package. |
| Art. 13 & 50 | Transparency / disclosure of AI interaction | Public signed Agent Card, JWKS, seal + /v1/seal/verify, public status endpoint. |
| Art. 14 | Human oversight; ability to intervene | Liability anchor (agent tethered to a human keeper); standing supports suspend / revoke. |
| Art. 17 | Quality management evidence hooks | Evidence bundle, status, trace export, and standing changes that feed a provider QMS. |
| Art. 4 | AI literacy of operators | Human-readable covenant + certificate documenting scope, capabilities, keeper. |
| Art. 26 | Deployer obligations (logs, oversight, monitoring) | Per-agent traces, keeper tether, live standing. |
| Art. 49 / 71 | Registration and EU database workflow | /v1/public/eu-database prototype feed. Complements, does not replace, the official EU database. |
| Art. 73 / 85 | Incident and complaint references | Public procedure links and governance references without exposing private reports. |
| Art. 25 / 72 | Value chain & post-market monitoring | Architect→agent link, persisted standing changes, append-only log substrate. |
Machine-readable evidence
| API guide | /api | |
| Registration schema | /agent-registration.json | |
| Profile | /.well-known/agent-accountability-profile.json | |
| Signed card | /.well-known/agent-card.json | |
| JWKS | /.well-known/jwks.json | |
| Status | /v1/public/agents/{id}/status | |
| Court export | /v1/public/agents/{id}/court-export | |
| Redaction policy | /v1/public/evidence-redaction-policy | |
| Evidence | /v1/public/agents/{id}/eu-ai-act-evidence | |
| Report | /v1/public/agents/{id}/eu-compliance-report | |
| EU database feed | /v1/public/eu-database | |
| GPAI | /v1/public/gpai-models | |
| Templates | /v1/public/compliance/templates | |
Check an agent's readiness
Agent-level technical controls only — not an organisation-level verdict.
References: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Arts. 3–14, 25–27, 49–55, 72; Annex III. All mappings require validation by qualified counsel before any public compliance claim.